Definition of up to speed
up to speed
adjective
- knowing enough to start performing a task.
James is still getting up to speed.
Last edited on Sep 26 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.
- having all the important details about a particular ongoing event.
Citation from "Son of Stan", American Dad (TV), Season 6 Episode 2 (2010) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Sep 25 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 25 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'speed': | |
| Definitions include: very fast. | |
| Definitions include: amphetamine; methamphetamine. | |
| Definitions include: ulcers and abscesses on the skin resulting from continual, habitual methamphetamine use. | |
| Definitions include: a habitual user of methamphetamine. | |
| Definitions include: to be excited to see someone. | |
Other terms relating to 'to': | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: See nine to five. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority. | |
| Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: to revisit one's past. | |
| Definitions include: to go back to the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: extreme; "all out". | |
| Definitions include: to be vastly superior. | |
| Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else. | |
| Definitions include: to be unintelligible. | |
| Definitions include: to do. | |
| Definitions include: more important things to deal with. | |
| Definitions include: to kill or destroy. | |
Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: stupid. | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
| Definitions include: a situation that could end in multiple outcomes, each of which is equally likely. | |
| Definitions include: to move away from. | |
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